Warren Court
(noun)
A term used to refer to the Supreme Court of the United States between 1953 and 1969, when Earl Warren served as Chief Justice. Warren led a liberal majority that used judicial power in dramatic fashion, to the consternation of conservative opponents. The Warren Court expanded civil rights, civil liberties, judicial power, and the federal power in dramatic ways.
(noun)
The term that refers to the Supreme Court of the United States between 1953 and 1969, when Earl Warren served as Chief Justice. Warren led a liberal majority that used judicial power in dramatic fashion, to the consternation of conservative opponents. Under Warren, the Court expanded civil rights, civil liberties, judicial power, and the federal power in significant ways.
(noun)
The Supreme Court of the United States between 1953 and 1969, led a liberal majority that used judicial power in dramatic fashion to the consternation of conservative opponents; during this time, civil rights, civil liberties, judicial power, and the federal power were expanded in dramatic ways.
Examples of Warren Court in the following topics:
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- The Warren Court (1953-1969), or the Supreme Court of the United States during the period when Earl Warren served as Chief Justice, declared a number of critical cases that expanded civil rights, civil liberties, judicial power, and the federal power in dramatic ways.
- The Warren Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States between 1953 and 1969, when Earl Warren served as Chief Justice.
- The Warren Court expanded civil rights, civil liberties, judicial power, and federal power .
- When Warren joined the Court, all the justices had been appointed by Franklin D.
- The Supreme Court in 1953, with Chief Justice Earl Warren sitting center.
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- Board of Education, 347 U.S. 483 (1954), was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court declared state laws establishing separate public schools for black and white students unconstitutional.
- The District Court ruled in favor of the Board of Education, citing the U.S.
- Supreme Court precedent set in Plessy v.
- Chief Justice Earl Warren convened a meeting of the justices, and presented to them the simple argument that the only reason to sustain segregation was an honest belief in the inferiority of African Americans.
- Warren further submitted that the Court must overrule Plessy to maintain its legitimacy as an institution of liberty, and it must do so unanimously to avoid massive Southern resistance.
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- In 1986, during his second term, the President Reagan elevated Justice William Rehnquist to succeed outgoing Chief Justice Warren Burger and named Antonin Scalia to occupy the seat left by Rehnquist.
- Reagan appointed 83 judges to the United States Courts of Appeals and 290 judges to the United States district courts.
- By the end of the 1980s, a conservative majority on the Supreme Court had put an end to the perceived "activist" trend begun under the leadership of Chief Justice Earl Warren.
- Reagan nominated conservative jurist Robert Bork to the high court.
- Assess Reagan's Nominations for the Supreme Court and his relationship with Congress
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- However, the pro-business policies put in place by
President Warren G.
- Coolidge spoke publicly in favor of America joining the Permanent Court
of International Justice, also known as the World Court, but insisted the
United States should not be bound by advisory decisions handed down by foreign
powers.
- Senate eventually approved a measure to join the court, with
reservations, in 1926.
- While the League of Nations accepted the reservations,
it suggested some modifications upon which the Senate failed to act and the U.S.
ultimately never joined the World Court.
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- In
1922, President Warren G.
- U.S. courts and the government also became less hospitable to unions.
- Corporations
used twice as many court injunctions against strikes than during any comparable period.
- The
Harding administration, which obtained a court injunction that destroyed the national railroad
workers' strike in 1922, also helped to end a nationwide strike of about
650,000 miners.
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- For the most part, women confined their politics to their letters and diaries, but a few women, such as Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Mercy Otis Warren, entered the political arena as public figures.
- Mercy Otis Warren was a political writer and propagandist of the American Revolution.
- While topics such as politics and war were thought to be the province of men, Warren was an exception.
- Prior to the American Revolution, in 1772, during a political meeting at the Warren's home, they formed the Committees of Correspondence along with Samuel Adams.
- While politics remained the domain of men during the Revolutionary War, Mercy Otis Warren challenged this assumption.
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- After
Warren G.
- In 1927 the Supreme Court ruled that the oil
leases involved in the Teapot Dome Scandal had been fraudulently obtained.
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- Warren Harding won the 1920 Presidential election, which was dominated by post-World War I concerns and hostility towards Wilson's policies.
- The Republicans nominated Senator Warren G.
- Identify the post-war campaign issues that led to the election of Warren Harding in the 1920 election.
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- In the 1920 presidential election, Republican Senator Warren G.
- The Republicans chose Senator Warren G.
- Republican Senator Warren Harding of Ohio secured a sweeping victory in the 1920 presidential election.
- Democratic candidate James Cox, the governor of Ohio, lost to Warren Harding in the presidential election of 1920.
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- For the most part, women confined their politics to their letters and diaries, but a few women, such as Abigail Adams, pictured in , and Mercy Otis Warren, entered the political arena as public figures.
- Adams was wife to John Adams and mother to John Quincy Adams while Mercy Otis Warren was a political writer and propagandist.